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...Television can motivate and reinforce condom use," said School of Public Health Dean Harvey V. Fineberg '67. He said the media can also reduce the social barriers to discussion of AIDS...

Author: By Mark K. Wiedman, | Title: Panel Debates Media, AIDS | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

POTENTIAL pitfalls lie in two attitudes that demonstrably bore constituents and damage the council's credibility: precocity and parochialism. For example, one campaigner from Leverett House this fall promises a hot tub in every room. Another vows a condom should be placed on every doorstep...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Counseling the Councillors | 10/5/1989 | See Source »

...hold. Similarly, Europeans remember when their films were the risque ones. Hah! Now . the show is on the other foot. Europeans at the TV children's hour would be aghast at the torrent of video violence, the Tampax-machine gags on Murphy Brown, or the 27 -- count 'em -- condom jokes in a single segment of Kate & Allie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Long Way from the Rue de la Paix | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...preacher's voice that make him seem like Moses come down again from Mount Sinai to deliver commandments 11 through 20. Smoking? It's an addiction that will kill you. Sex? Only in marriage. AIDS? The best preventive device is a monogamous relationship; the second best, a condom. Deformed newborns? Save them. Sex education? In the earliest grade possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Doctor Prescribes Hard Truth: C. EVERETT KOOP | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...began by touting condoms -- now commonly called mechais in Thailand. "Wherever there was a crowd, we would be there handing them out," says Mechai. "Movie theaters, traffic jams -- we tried to turn every event into a family-planning session." With humor and showmanship, Mechai has judged condom-blowing contests and has shown how to use condoms as tourniquets. Each New Year's Eve, the P.D.A. gives traffic police boxes of prophylactics to distribute in a "cops and rubbers" program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: The Good News: Thailand Controls a Baby Boom | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

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